Paradrops: Difference between revisions

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The paradrop superweapon can be the following:

American Paradrop - 8 GIs
Tech Paradrop - 6 GIs and Initiates, 9 Conscripts

Vehicles can not be dropped by superweapons, and while they can be dropped from carryalls they z-shift behind the terrain upon reaching ground. Vehicle Paradrops in missions were created by map triggers, which are alltogether much more powerful in this sense.

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-'''Allied General'''
+The paradrop superweapon can be the following:
+*American Paradrop - 8 GIs
+*Tech Paradrop - 6 GIs and Initiates, 9 Conscripts
-Paradrops are an RA2 "superweapon" which can be gained by captured an tech airport or by playing as America and building and airforce command.
+Vehicles can not be dropped by superweapons, and while they can be dropped from carryalls they z-shift behind the terrain upon reaching ground. Vehicle Paradrops in missions were created by map triggers, which are alltogether much more powerful in this sense.
-Its purpose is to deliver faction specific infantry over a designation target (or in American case 8 GI's)
-Modifications can include changing:
-* transport plane apperance and INI setting e.g. FlightLevel=XXXX where x is a number determines the altitude of the plane.
-* types of infantry paradropped. An hack can also be used for "parabombs" - parchuted explosives which explode upon impact with ground (an superweapon used by soviet badger bombers in RA1)
-* the superweapon icon, charge time and show countdown time.
-An hack can also give the impression of a new paradrop by giving America 6 veteran GI's or by using the PD patch
-'''Finally VEHICLE PARADROPS VIA THE SUPERWEAPON METHOD ARE IMPOSSIBLE''', the vehicle paradrops seen in RA2 Soviet Mission 3 were triggers via map triggers and besides wierd graphical issues can occur with vehicles which have been dropped by parchute

Paradrops: Difference between revisions

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